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David Rennie
Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Last Catch of the Day" Full moon being up when the Su David is a self taught Photographer. Bit of humour. He thought ISO: was a measurement for Radioactive materials. Photo Shop: was were you bought your camera gear. Shuter Speed: was how fast your venetian blinds closed. Apature: He had no idea. Raw: How ate his Veges. But others ate there steak. Tiff: A little argument. and f-stop: well we will leave that to your imagination. Having a love of Wildlife it was for him a natural marriage. David did not want to be a record photographer and has strived to capture the "Art in Nature" specializing in birds and sub specializing in 3 types of birds. Having Bi-Polar (his Blessing and his Curse) and having a manic phase that sometimes meant sleep would evade him for days at a time during these times he would quite often disappear into the night with his camera and be gone for many hours only to return and then spend more hours processing his work. Other times he would leave early and return after dark to ensure he captured that perfect sunrise. Often he would stay until very late watching the stars and enjoying the solitude. He would during these times load up his trusty jeep that he had spray painted himself in camouflage colours, which quite often caused a few raised eyebrows, he finally added wildlife photographer to the side of the jeep to ward of any suspicious glances. On some occasions he would be gone all day, his day consisting of shoot the sunrise, then shoot birds for a couple of hours, using a dedicated infrared camera shoot the mid morning harsh sunlight to late afternoon, shoot birds, shoot landscapes, shoot the sunset, shoot all night long and use this time to travel to the next spot, make coffee, eat and start all over again. Again his mania also meant he could not be still for long, so shooting birds was a constant movement, dressed in US sniper suits and floating in the water on hand made foam camera stabilizers he was able to shoot 90% of his images using a Canon 300mm f2.8 IS and a 70-200mm f2.8 lens mounted to a Canon 1DMKIII and then the MKIV. He would have 3 cameras and lens around his neck and 50 kg's of back pack with other lenses, tripods, filters etc, food, Phone (which he would often forget to turn off, only to have his wife ring to check in on him and frighten his target away) and go on foot into (most cases, God knows where) the bush or swamps. He would finally return home much to the relief of his wife and sleep when able to, process his images and plan the next trip. The past 2 years have been difficult ones and due to on going health issues David has no longer been able to be out in his beloved bush, this caused him to sink into a long lasting depression (or the down side of his mania) with much encouragement from family and friends he is now sorting through his huge collection of beautiful photographs so he can share his God given gift with others, this has been very encouraging to David and who knows maybe one day in the future he will be able to get back out there and spend time where he is most happy. Deb wife of 30 Years |
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